A woman searches a dark forest at night for her lover, her anxiety peaking when she finds a corpse. This VR adventure reimagines Arnold Schönberg's 1924 mono-opera through a 360° world, pairing expressive music with player-driven exploration. On PC, you don a headset and controllers to step into her role.
You wander the eerie nocturnal woods, advancing the story through direct interactions. The production blends stage artistry with digital media for an immediate musical encounter. Players drawn to narrative-driven VR experiences will connect with this emotional journey.
Arnold Schönberg's mono-opera "Erwartung", which premiered in 1924, uses expressive tonal language to tell the story of a woman's anxiety when she stumbles upon a corpse in the woods at night while searching for her lover. Director André Bücker's new virtual reality production transfers this emotional psychogram into a 360° VR world. This offers an intense gaming experience in which Schönberg's music can be experienced in a completely new and immediate way.
When you put on the VR headset and pick up the controllers, you are immersed in a nocturnal, eerie forest in which a woman is searching for her lover. The player takes on the role of this woman, who wanders through the forest, and drives the plot forward through their own interactions.
With "Erwartung", Staatstheater Augsburg is taking the next step in its digital theatre programme and linking artistic stage works and digital media even more closely.
